Wendy Sharpe features in Issue #35 of Last Post Magazine, ANZAC Day Edition!
Link to the podcast version here.
Latest Edition: Issue 35
– Anzac Day Edition 2025
Excerpt from Wendy’s interview:
“When I got a phone call from the War Memorial to ask if I wanted to go to is Timor, and they talked about official artist scheme, I didn’t actually know what they were talking about because it had lapsed. It had been. It was in the Second War. I think it was a bit in the Vietnam War, but it kind of lapsed. And so I wasn’t really familiar with it, but I also knew that it was such an honor because it’s national, so they’re just choosing someone, “Would you like to go?”…
And what they are choosing, and
this is really the crux of it, I guess, is they’re thinking… Obviously they have to think that they value some of the artist’s work and that it would be good in their collection, but they also need to think, “What’s the point of actually sending them over, particularly nowadays when you can watch things online, on television, on whatever? Why would you go?” You have to make work that is about being there. And as we know, we were just talking about travel a minute ago, just nice touristy, travel, whatever travel.
You can look at pictures online, but
it’s not the same as actually walking through it, whatever it is, anything.
It can be just going on holiday somewhere in Australia. It’s not the same thing. And there needs to be someone who’s going to synthesize the experience.”
From Last Post Magazine:
In the 35th edition of Australia’s national magazine, we share the story of Ralph Roberston, the first NSW player to be inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame.
We look at the story of Albert Jacka, a park where Anzac Day comes early, housing affordability, anti-racism in the Arts and veterans forging new careers in film.
With travel to Rio, India, Fiji and a tribute to Olympian sailor Luciano Sandrin.
Featuring interviews with Steve Vizard, Wendy Sharpe, Brendan Sowry, Mick Sowry and Buzz Bidstrup.
